Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Textfield overflow or buffer limit ??

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Robert May wrote:
> Under WinNT/2K/XP I can't find the default limit documented (it may be 
> the same, but you can look using the GetLimitText() method). I think 
> under these OS's it should be possible to increase the allowed size with 
> SetLimitText() to several megabytes - Sorry, but I don't have a suitable 
> machine at hand to try.

Default limit is same as Win98.

> If you want more space than this, the try using the RichEdit class - it 
> should be (almost) a drop in replacement for the Textfield, and IIRC the 
> text limit can be increased to about 2GB.

Need to add that you need to used the (mis-spelled) LimiteText() method 
to set the size to above 64K.

$richedit->LimiteText(2**31 - 1); appears to be the biggest you can make it.

Regards,
Rob.